Fix Archlinux

22 Jun 2013 Category: Archlinux

If you are an Archlinux user, you might have noticed the latest news - Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention. The same problem was encountered on my laptop during update:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem

Following the instruction, I just uninstalled Grub and some other programs. But accidentally hit POWER OFF button right after. No surprise I cannot login to Archlinux after reboot. Here is the procedure how I fixed it.

Download latest Linux ISO and creat Live USB via LinuxLive USB Creator.
Get into Live CD mode and set up internet connect according to Beginners’ Guide.

Here is an example of wireless connection.
```
 # iw dev
 # ip link set wlp3s0 up
 # wifi-menu wlp3s0 
```
Check disk partitioning.
```
 # lsblk /dev/sda 
 # fdisk -l  
```
On my laptop, sda 7/8/9/10 are Linux partitions.
- sda 7: 200M boot directory
- sda 8: 2G SWAP
- sda 9: 4.7G root directory
- sda 10: 28.6G home directory

Mount the directories respectively.

 # mkdir /mnt/arch
 # mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/arch
 # mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/arch/boot/
 # mount /dev/sdb10 /mnt/arch/home/

Chroot according to wikipage Change Root.
```
 # arch-chroot /mnt/arch
```

Use the same internet connection.

 # cp -L /etc/resolv.conf etc/resolv.conf

Assign the shell.
```
 # chroot . /bin/bash
```

Install syslinux.

 # pacman -S syslinux
 # syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
 # nano /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

Change sda9 to the root directory.

 ...
 LABEL arch
     ...
     APPEND root=/dev/sda9 ro
 	...

To prevent below error. You still need the following steps.

 /sbin/init does not exist

Install systemd-sysvcompat.

Find below line in ‘/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg’.
```
 LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
```
Add init as:
```
 LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
```
Exit chroot.
```
# exit
# umount /mnt/arch/
```
Reboot and now you will get into the nice bootload interface.

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